title: Parental role conflict: the nursing diagnosis in mothers of hospitalized newborns.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To verify if mothers of newborns hospitalized recognize the defining characteristics of "parental role conflict" as representative of that experience.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional and descriptive study, developed in a neonatal unit of a public teaching hospital in the state of São Paulo. The sample consisted of 100 women who assigned scores of 1 to 5 to the defining characteristics of the diagnosis, where 1 meant "not at all characteristic" and 5 meant "completely characteristic of what I am experiencing."
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the total sample, 96 women self-identified with the diagnosis. The most prevalent defining characteristics were: "anxiety," "mother expresses concern(s) in relation to changes in maternal role"; "verbalizes feelings of frustration," "reports concern about family" and "fear". Women who were with their children less often during hospitalization had a higher number of defining characteristics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was a high prevalence of the defining characteristics of the studied diagnosis, suggesting the relevance of the topic and the need for further studies to be developed in the neonatal unit.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil. elenicevalentim@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Elenice Valentim
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Carmona
authors.forename: Ianê Nogueira
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: do Vale
authors.forename: Conceição Vieira da Silva
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Ohara
authors.forename: Ana Cristina Freitas de Vilhena
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Abrão
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D012380:Role